Introduction to Bioinformatics (KB7004) → Introduction lecture

Teacher: Arne Elofsson (arne@bioinfo.se)

Guest-lectures: Ilya Vaksel, Gunnar von Heijne, Petras Kundrotas, Joanna Slusky

Assistants: Marco Salvatore, Karolis Uziela, John Lamb, David Menendez-Hurtado, Mirco Michel.

Hashtag: #kb7004

Homepage: https://bioinfo.se/courses/introduction-to-bioinformatics

Lectures: Magneli Hall, Arrheniuslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 10-18 (Subway Universitet)

Computer room: A244

General Schedule: Lectures: 13:00-15:00 Labs 09:00-12:00 or 15:00-18:00 (two groups)

Card: You can pick it up at the secretaries (Elisabeth) on floor 4 at Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics after the course starts.

(Magnelisalen is #11 in the map below)

Readings:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

Extra reading and exercises:

http://rosalind.info bioinformatics oriented exercises.

http://www.pythonchallenge.com increasingly harder exercises, get creative!

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ If you speak any programming language other than Python this may bring you up to speed fast.

https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans a philosophical approach to learning programming (recommended as the course ends).

Introduction to Bioinformatics (KB7004)